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I can’t seem to find the option to create a “reflected” gradient in Affinity Designer. The only available gradient types in Affinity Designer are
Solid Linear Elliptical Radial Conical Bitmap I really hope having to manually create a reflected gradient isn’t the only workaround!

This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you Dominik! 

I try to use Affinity, because there's so much to like...
But there's a few things like:
- that keeps me using PhotoShop or Illustrator.
This isn't a user problem: it's a missing feature - (and probably a top 10 most important features) (at least for my workflow)
For example... I'm making something... and I don't know what size it is yet - because it's based on some other graphics or screenshots.
So, instead of just using the program: I end up just taking a screenshot instead, or opening up an Adobe product as my final steps.
This thread is pretty embarrassing to "Design" and "Thinking" in general...
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Shift + o -> drag, done..

All these 'solutions' are workarounds - can the Affinity Designer devs please just look at Adobe Fireworks, these may seem like trivial thiings buts its so infuriating when these little things are made difficult. I've been playing aorund with Affinity Designer and aa long time user of Fireworks the lack of some simple functions to crop and resize canvas is frustrating.
In Fireworks:
edit > crop document (crops document to current selection)
modify > canvas > trim canvas (trims canvas to all objects
modify > canvas > fit canvas (fits canvas to all objects - used when objects are outside te bounds of the canvas)
I can see in Photo there is an option document > clip canvas

No, the machine has to serve the human, not the other way ’round. The software/UI has to do what the users want and if the users want a crop tool, give it to them! Especially since a “crop/trim canvas” function would be a tremendous time saver as opposed to going into document setup.
 
For example: I have three small objects on a large canvas (no artboard) and I want to export these three objects as one image — crop/trim canvas (better yet with a shortcut) and hitting Ctrl/Cmd-X would be a thousand times faster than selecting all objects to look at the transform panel and find out the dimensions, then unselecting them, going into document options, entering the dimensions, setting the scaling behavior, and then exporting the image. Likewise, using the export persona for such a simple operation is overkill because you still have to perform multiple steps just for a quick export.
 
The workflow problem is currently prevalent. That you can’t imagine the use of a cropping function doesn’t mean that everybody else is at fault.

It works in Illustrator.
Artboards are extremely useful for branding and exploring many variations on a design and dividing up sets into individual file exports.
You don't use them?
Despite Affinity Designer's relative clumsy application of Artboards I spent most of today creating several templates to recreate my basic work files from Adobe Illustrator and Pages.

Hi @Evan D,
you can move your mouse just above the font size read out and use the scroll wheel (if you have one) to increase or decrease the font size in 1pt steps. You don't even have to click or drag. CTRL+scroll (on Windows) changes by a tenth of a point, SHIFT+scroll changes by 10x increments.
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Just use the settings in the Layers panel of the Export Persona.

Which is why people have been requesting (and other similar software has) a way to set the color of the canvas, and even more importantly a way to set objects as non-printing.

Thanks for the suggestions. The transparent background is a pretty lame workaround if you're working with white or light-grey objects. There's no excuse for not letting us set the canvas color, but people have already complained about this and nothing has been done.
The grouping suggestion turned out to be unnecessary. I started a new drawing similar to the example above, and discovered in the Export persona that there's a "create slice" option in the context menu... but only when you're NOT using the Slice tool! 🙄